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as you know, i've traveled into new york all the time and travel into canada all the time. my wife always reminds me to difference of traveling into pearson airport versus the new york, our greatest city in the world, airports. we've got to put a little more money. we know airplanes according to a whole range of recent studies are big economic generators. act on the same plane as our high-tech industry clusters. we need to rebuild our airports, invest in our public transit as well as keeping our roads going. but let's pay for the roads. >> ken, i see you nodding. do you think there are some things that rank higher than other things or should this be done as a portfolio, that there are a lot of things that need to be fixed? richard made a reference to the $2 trillion number to get our infrastructure on a national level up to a reliable point. >> well, i want to pick up first on this idea of pricing things and congestion pricing, which people just in the united states haven't accepted. so if it's a really busy road, you pay more to use that road. that used to be impossible. i
as you know, i've traveled into new york all the time and travel into canada all the time. my wife always reminds me to difference of traveling into pearson airport versus the new york, our greatest city in the world, airports. we've got to put a little more money. we know airplanes according to a whole range of recent studies are big economic generators. act on the same plane as our high-tech industry clusters. we need to rebuild our airports, invest in our public transit as well as keeping...
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now, annie lowry of "the new york times" is still with us. i have to make sure my viewers understand i am not advocating for tax increases on the rich. gene is a senior writer. kevin haas, senior director at the american enterprise institute, the author of much of mitt romney's economic policy, a good friend of the show. gene, let me start with you. tax increases on people making more than $250,000 a year. use that as a number. might be $400,000, half a million, a million. take $250,000. if you increase taxes, the marginal tax rate from 35% to 39.6% on that group of people, does it hurt the economy? >> well, i'm going to use estimates from the congressional budget office, which is a nonpartisan scorekeeper for congress. they found if you let those bush tax cuts on high-income folks expire at that level it would not boost the economy -- or rather it would boost the economy almost as much as if you let everybody's bush tax cuts stay in place. in other words, there's little difference in how much you would help the economy if you let those bush
now, annie lowry of "the new york times" is still with us. i have to make sure my viewers understand i am not advocating for tax increases on the rich. gene is a senior writer. kevin haas, senior director at the american enterprise institute, the author of much of mitt romney's economic policy, a good friend of the show. gene, let me start with you. tax increases on people making more than $250,000 a year. use that as a number. might be $400,000, half a million, a million. take...
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new york mayor, michael bloomberg said calling for meaningful action is not enough. we need immediate action. we have heard all the rhetoric before. what we have not seen is leadership. not from the white house, and not from congress. gun violence has not been a priority for the obama administration as he ran for president in 2008, obama supported reinstating a ban on assault weapons. >> don't tell me we can't uphold the second amendment while keeping ak-47s out of the hands of criminals. >> reporter: once again being he did not make good on his campaign pledge. the brady committee to end gun violence gave the president f's across the board on the report card. congress, even in the democratic-controlled senate, there's been little appetite to touch the controversial issue. multiple gun control bills have been introduced. not a single one has made it to the floor for a vote. those involved in the debate over guns say the president has a number of options. reinstating some form of the assault weapons ban that expired in 1994. banning high-count magazines, or improving
new york mayor, michael bloomberg said calling for meaningful action is not enough. we need immediate action. we have heard all the rhetoric before. what we have not seen is leadership. not from the white house, and not from congress. gun violence has not been a priority for the obama administration as he ran for president in 2008, obama supported reinstating a ban on assault weapons. >> don't tell me we can't uphold the second amendment while keeping ak-47s out of the hands of criminals....
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and i travel into new york all the time and i travel into canada all the time. my wife always remind me of the difference of traveling into the pearson airport versus new york. we've got to put more money. we know that airports, according to a whole range of recent studies are big economic generators, about on the same plane as our high-tech industry clusters, we need to rebuild our airport, invest in our public transit. let's pay for the roads. >> do you think that there are some things that rank higher than other things or should just be done as a portfolio. that there are a lot of things that need to be fixed. richard made reference to the $2 trillion to get our infrastructure up to a reliable point. >> i want to fix up on the idea of pricing things. which people in the united states haven't accepted. so it's if a really busy road, you pay more to use that. that used to be impossible. you couldn't put a toll booth every two miles. now it's nothing, it's easy to achieve that. that would make a huge difference in making it more efficient. i agree strongly with
and i travel into new york all the time and i travel into canada all the time. my wife always remind me of the difference of traveling into the pearson airport versus new york. we've got to put more money. we know that airports, according to a whole range of recent studies are big economic generators, about on the same plane as our high-tech industry clusters, we need to rebuild our airport, invest in our public transit. let's pay for the roads. >> do you think that there are some things...
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former new york governor george pataki wrote that in the wake of sandy, more lerelectrical wires need to be located under ground. it sounds entirely reasonable and sensible and you say that's crazy. >> well, i mean i think it is reasonable in some areas and when a line goes down, it sometimes make sense to bury it. we have a lot of electricity lines in this country and putting them under ground, we're no longer looking at illions with a b in front of it, we're start torg look at trillions. these are investments that utilities need to make and are paid for by rate payers. utilities are starting to build a lot more transmission on their own and, you know, they are trying to harden their systems, but again, by smartens up, by making it so that when the wind knocks a line down, it isn't such a catastrophe, that's a lot cheapernd smarter way to start fixing our system than to try to put this entire above ground network that we have, todown, start digging brillions of hole and putting everything under ground. >> michael grunwald is the senior executive director of time. >>> with the fiscal
former new york governor george pataki wrote that in the wake of sandy, more lerelectrical wires need to be located under ground. it sounds entirely reasonable and sensible and you say that's crazy. >> well, i mean i think it is reasonable in some areas and when a line goes down, it sometimes make sense to bury it. we have a lot of electricity lines in this country and putting them under ground, we're no longer looking at illions with a b in front of it, we're start torg look at...
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joining me now is an author from new york. dave, you wrote about the tragedy. does yesterday's killing bear a resemblance to that or virginia tech or any of the other shootings? >> well, yes it does in a whole lot of ways. especially emotionally i think for all of us. i talked to quite a few of the columbine survivors yesterday who were having really, really rough days in different ways. it pulls that together and then of course the same questions that we're asking with everyone wanting to know he why and we made a lot of mistakes in that case of jumping too quickly to why. i think the press is much better now at understanding to be more cautious about these things but still a desire to understand why this happened and how it fits into this wider picture of why all of these shootings. >> is there anything that -- with between all of the shootings, the suspects, is there anything that resonates with you about detecting signs that a person is about to commit such a horrific crime or do these people sometimes just snap? >> yeah, that's a great question. they defin
joining me now is an author from new york. dave, you wrote about the tragedy. does yesterday's killing bear a resemblance to that or virginia tech or any of the other shootings? >> well, yes it does in a whole lot of ways. especially emotionally i think for all of us. i talked to quite a few of the columbine survivors yesterday who were having really, really rough days in different ways. it pulls that together and then of course the same questions that we're asking with everyone wanting...
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york city have their power wires underground. other places are susceptible to trees and things falling. george pataki said serious consideration has to be given to burying electrical distribute wires underground, drastically reducing the need for repairs caused by wind and tree damage. sounds entirely reasonable and sensible and you say that's crazy. >> i mean, i think it is reasonable in some areas. a line goes down, it sometimes makes sense to bury it. we have a lot of electricity lines in the country. putting them underground, we're go longer looking at illions with a b in front of it. you're looking at trillions. these are investments that utilities have to make and are paid for by rate payers. utilities are starting to build a lot more transmission on their own. and you know, they are trying to harden their systems, but again, by smartening up, by making it so that, you know, when the wind knocks a line down, it isn't such a catastrophe, that's a lot cheaper and smarter way to start fixing our system than to try to put this
york city have their power wires underground. other places are susceptible to trees and things falling. george pataki said serious consideration has to be given to burying electrical distribute wires underground, drastically reducing the need for repairs caused by wind and tree damage. sounds entirely reasonable and sensible and you say that's crazy. >> i mean, i think it is reasonable in some areas. a line goes down, it sometimes makes sense to bury it. we have a lot of electricity lines...